> please be advised- below is a compilation of dumb quotes from our
> president elect- the compilation is very long.
> George W. Bush -- From the Horse's Mouth
> Some George W. Bush quotes:
> "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
> -- Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000 
> "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
> -- in Nashua, New Hampshire, Jan. 27, 2000 
> "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
> -- in Concord, New Hampshire Jan. 29, 2000 
> "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
> principles, come and join this campaign."
> -- Hilton Head, South Carolina, Feb. 16, 2000 
> "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have-he can't 
have it
> both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
> -- Florence, South Carolina, Feb. 17, 2000 
> "I understand small business growth. I was one." -- New York Daily 
News,
> Feb. 19, 2000 
>  "Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We 
want
> anybody who can find work to be able to find work."-60 Minutes II, 
Dec. 5,
> 2000 
> 
> "I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a 
discussion
> before finality has finally happened in this presidential race."
> -Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 
2,
> 2000 
> 
> "As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, 
I
> would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim 
Baker."-Crawford,
> Texas, Nov. 30, 2000
> 
> "The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's 
job to
> interpret law."-Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
> 
> "They misunderestimated me."-Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
> 
> "Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded 
programs,
> $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file 
out
> the forms or answer the phones?"-Minneapolis, Nov. 1, 2000
> 
> "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like 
it's
> some kind of federal program."-St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
> 
> "They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the
> people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not
> doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right 
thing,
> and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who
> work."-Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 2000 
> 
> "Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out 
and
> help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans 
to
> vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm 
the
> one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the 
Bible,
> that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I 
will
> swear to not-to uphold the laws of the land."-Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 27, 
2000 
> 
> "It's your money. You paid for it."-LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
> 
> "That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st 
century
> that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th 
century.
> This is the first chapter of the 21st century. "-On the Lewinsky 
scandal,
> Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000 
> 
> "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is 
important.
> It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, 
you
> know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."-Arlington Heights, Ill., 
Oct.
> 24, 2000 
> 
> "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and 
our
> allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make 
the
> world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own 
nuclear
> capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace."-Des 
Moines,
> Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000
> 
> "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take
> dream."-LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 
> 
> "If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're
> going to have gag orders."
> 
> "Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know 
it." 
> 
> "It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."
> 
> "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a 
gun." 
> 
> "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 
percent of
> the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if 
I'm
> the president." 
> 
> "Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about." 
> 
> "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, 
then I'm
> for it."-St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000 
> 
> "Our priorities is our faith."-Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
> 
> "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial 
profiling,
> which is illiterate children."-Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 
2000
> (Thanks to Leonard Williams.) 
> 
> "It's going to require numerous IRA agents."-On Gore's tax plan,
> Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 
> 
> "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to 
answer
> questions. I can't answer your question."-In response to a question 
about
> whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first
> debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.) 
> 
> "I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial
> centers, not only here but at home."-Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to 
M.
> Bateman.) 
> 
> "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."-Saginaw, 
Mich.,
> Sept. 29, 2000
> 
> "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."-Redwood, Calif., Sept. 
27,
> 2000
> 
> "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations 
rise
> above that which is expected."-Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
> 
> "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and 
more of
> our imports come from overseas."-Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000 
> 
> "Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up
> their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example,
> talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing 
to say
> anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record 
in
> Texas."-MSNBC, Sept. 20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.)
> 
> "I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."-Oprah, Sept. 
19,
> 2000 
> 
> "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an 
economic
> illness."-The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000
> 
> "The woman who knew that I had dyslexia-I never interviewed 
her."-Orange,
> Calif., Sept. 15, 2000
> 
> "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some 
of
> their own money."-Westminster, Calif., Sept. 13, 2000
> 
> "They have miscalculated me as a leader."-Ibid. 
> 
> "I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences 
between
> our views on prescription drugs."-Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12, 2000
> 
> "This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, 
I
> like interfacing with them."-Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
> 
> "That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting 
ready
> to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is 
fired."-Westland,
> Mich., Sept. 8, 2000
> 
> "Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He
> represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally
> comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's 
where
> I'm coming from."-Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 (Thanks to Michael Butler,
> Houston, Texas.)
> 
> "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country 
called
> America will be the pacemakers."-Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000
> 
> "We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on 
behalf
> of Americans."-Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
> 
> "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential 
candidate
> made it through the public airways."-Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000. 
> 
> "The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come 
and
> is coming."--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with the New York 
Times,
> Sept. 2, 2000 
> 
> "As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public 
schools,
> and I have met those standards."--CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
> 
> "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do 
it,
> that's trustworthiness."--Ibid. 
> 
> "I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do 
know I'm
> ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes."-Des 
Moines,
> Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
> 
> ''This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and 
the
> farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling 
to
> get ahead."-Ibid. 
> 
> "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile 
or
> hold our allies hostile.''-Ibid.
> 
> "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who
> brings people together."-Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 (Thanks to 
Tarja
> Black.)
> 
> "I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president 
were
> wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where."-Interview with 
the
> Associated Press, Aug. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Ryan Rhodes.) 
> 
> "I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary 
thoughts to
> a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our
> thinking."-Salinas, Calif., Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.) 
> 
> "And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think 
about
> him as a human being and a person."-President George H.W. Bush, on 
the
> Today show, Aug. 1, 2000
> 
> "You might want to comment on that, Honorable."--To New Jersey's 
secretary
> of state, the Hon. DeForest Soaries Jr., as quoted by Dana Milbank in 
the
> Washington Post, July 15, 2000
> 
> "The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when 
it
> comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, 
it's
> going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more 
effective."-In
> Wayne, Mich., as quoted by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, 
June
> 28, 2000 
> 
> "The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have 
reviewed I
> have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that 
I've
> looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent 
person
> to death in the state of Texas." All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 
2000
> (Thanks to Andy Nouraee.) 
> 
> "I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read-I understand
> reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand 
reality,
> I do."-On abortion, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000
> 
> "There's not going to be enough people in the system to take 
advantage of
> people like me."-On the coming Social Security crisis; Wilton, Conn.; 
June
> 9, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Mais.) 
> 
> "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job 
is
> underestimating."-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 (Thanks to
> Alfred Stanley, Austin, Texas.)
> 
> Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. 
That's
> dieciséis de Septiembre, and ..." 
> Matthews: "What's that in English?"
> Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Dieciséis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) 
> -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous readers.)
> 
> "Actually, I-this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like 
it.
> When I'm talking about-when I'm talking about myself, and when he's
> talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."-Ibid. 
> 
> "This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the 
past we
> were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the 
past.
> We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at 
each
> other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of. ... You see, 
even
> though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're
> certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil 
still
> remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America
> stands for. ... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and 
there's
> terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm 
certain to
> maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm
> certain that under this administration, morale in the military is
> dangerously low."-Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 
2000 
> 
> "He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because 
the
> results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for 
him to
> be."-On Rudy Giuliani, The Edge With Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000 (Thanks 
to
> Peter Goldman.) 
> 
> "The fact that he relies on facts-says things that are not 
factual-are
> going to undermine his campaign."-New York Times, March 4, 2000 
(Thanks to
> Garry Trudeau.) 
> 
> "I think we agree, the past is over."-On his meeting with John 
McCain,
> Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
> 
> "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--Reuters, 
May 5,
> 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
> 
> GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper. It just seems so
> un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the house with a 
scared
> little boy there. I talked to my little brother, Jeb-I haven't told 
this
> to many people. But he's the governor of-I shouldn't call him my 
little
> brother--my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas. 
> JIM LEHRER: Florida. 
> GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida.-The NewsHour With Jim
> Lehrer, April 27, 2000
> 
> "I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested 
to
> know."-On what happened in negotiations between the Justice 
Department and
> Elián González's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, 
April
> 26, 2000 (Thanks to Saul Selzer.)
> 
> "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is 
sometimes
> until we get an objective analysis."-Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
> 
> "You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it."-Responding 
to a
> question about whether he and Al Gore were making the Elián González 
case
> a political issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated 
Press,
> April 6, 2000 (Thanks to Helen Kennedy.)
> 
> "I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to
> California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to
> California."-In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 
8,
> 2000 
> 
> "Reading is the basics for all learning."-Announcing his "Reading 
First"
> initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)
> 
> "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations,
> their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the
> science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of
> federal-federal cufflink."-At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, 
March 30,
> 2000 
> 
> "Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and 
negative
> ads."-Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush, quoted in the 
Washington
> Post, March 24, 2000 
> 
> "I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is 
to
> call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform 
and
> renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind
> people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors
> helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very 
worried
> about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant 
for
> him. I really worry about that. And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. 
I'm
> answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead 
America to
> a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so 
incredibly
> negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because 
people
> sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to 
lead
> the country. And I tease people by saying, 'A leader, you can't say,
> follow me the world is going to be worse.' I'm an optimistic person. 
I'm
> an inherently content person. I've got a great sense of where I want 
to
> lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the 
call on
> that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough 
campaign."-Interview
> with the Washington Post, March 23, 2000 
> 
> "People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you 
an
> example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's 
your
> speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust
> me."-Interview with the New York Times, March 15, 2000
> 
> "It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a
> significant step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and 
I'll
> be able to do so next fall, I hope."-In an interview with the 
Associated
> Press, March 8, 2000 (Thanks to Joshua Micah Marshall.) 
> 
> "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
> nature.''-Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
> 
> "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those
> college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me
> because I happened to go to the university."-Today, Feb. 23, 2000
> 
> "I understand small business growth. I was one."-New York Daily News, 
Feb.
> 19, 2000 
> 
> "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have-he can't 
have it
> both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low 
road."-To
> reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000
> 
> "Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with 
the
> organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my
> behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."-To Cokie Roberts, This 
Week,
> Feb. 20, 2000
> 
> "I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the 
bus
> 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of 
speeches,
> getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on 
message to
> win?"-Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000 
> 
> "I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did 
it
> occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."-ibid.
> 
> "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
> principles, come and join this campaign."-Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 
2000
> 
> "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that 
simply
> suckles kids through?"-Explaining the need for educational 
accountability
> in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
> 
> "We ought to make the pie higher."-South Carolina Republican Debate, 
Feb.
> 15, 2000
> 
> "I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to 
attract
> votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get 
subscribed
> to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me."-Meet The Press, Feb. 
13,
> 2000 
> 
> "I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less-I pontificate 
less,
> although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more
> interacting with people."-ibid
> 
> "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle 
class,
> I think we should knock down the tollbooth."-Nashua, N.H., as quoted 
by
> Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000
> 
> "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my
> case."-Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 
30,
> 2000
> 
> "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"-Concord, N.H., 
Jan.
> 29, 2000
> 
> "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you 
do
> when you run for president. You gotta preserve."-Speaking during
> "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. 
As
> quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
> 
> "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."-Greater
> Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
> 
> "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they
> basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, 
quotas, I
> think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what 
everybody
> else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my 
position.''-Quoted
> by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 (Thanks to 
Toni
> L. Gould.)
> 
> "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly 
who
> they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them 
was.
> Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're
> there."-Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
> 
> "The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are 
focused
> on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and 
women,
> women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and 
who
> will not stain the house."-Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 
2000
> 
> "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and 
uncertainty
> and potential mential losses."-At a South Carolina oyster roast, as 
quoted
> in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000
> 
> "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like 
you
> like to be liked yourself."-ibid.
> 
> "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"-Florence, 
S.C.,
> Jan. 11, 2000
> 
> "Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."-ibid.
> 
> "There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to 
be
> town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge
> country."-Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
> 
> "I read the newspaper."-In answer to a question about his reading 
habits,
> New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
> 
> "I think it's important for those of us in a position of 
responsibility to
> be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out 
of
> wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I 
believe we
> ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that 
is
> proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society. ... And, you know,
> hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."-Meet the Press, 
Nov.
> 21, 1999
> 
> "The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all 
parts of
> the country. Within months, I knew many of them."-From A Charge To 
Keep,
> by George W. Bush, published November 1999
> 
> "It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his
> party's nomination to start speculating about vice 
presidents."-Keene,
> N.H., Oct. 22, 1999, quoted in the New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999
> 
> "The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"-Answering 
a
> question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in the 
New
> York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
> 
> "I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time 
debating
> it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."-On discussions of the 
Vietnam War
> when he was an undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
> 
> "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand 
from
> your foreign minister, who came to Texas."-To a Slovak journalist as
> quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting 
was
> with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.
> 
> "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a
> statement."-Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 
1999
> 
> "Keep good relations with the Grecians."-Quoted in the Economist, 
June 12,
> 1999
> 
> "Kosovians can move back in."-CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999
> 
> "It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."-From a 
1994
> interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio